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Jewish Clarinet Music from Klezmer to Jazz Michael SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT LOX AND LICORICE, BAGELS AND BLUES: JEWISH CLARINET MUSIC FROM KLEZMER TO JAZZ MICHAEL WEBSTER, Clarinet SUSAN LORETTE DUNN, Soprano CHRISTOPHER MCKIGGAN, Piano MICHAEL STUBBART, Drums CARSON MARSHALL, Violin JACQUELINE KITZMILLER, Violin JILL VALENTINE, Viola BEN STOEHR, Cello Saturday, January 31, 2015 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall PROGRAM Firn di Mekhutonim Aheym Klezmer standard as played by Naftule Brandwein Der Stile Bulgar Klezmer standard as played by Harry Kandel And the Angels Sing Ziggy Elman/Johnny Mercer as performed by Martha Tilton, Benny Goodman, and Ziggy Elman I Love Paris Cole Porter (1891-1964) Sing Sing Sing Louis Prima as played by Benny Goodman (1910-1978) and drummer Gene Krupa Sonatina No. 2 for Klezmer Clarinet Paul Schoenfeld and Piano (2014) (b. 1947) World premiere commissioned by the Clarinet Commission Collective INTERMISSION Doina Klezmer standard as played by Dave Tarras Clarinet Concerto Artie Shaw (1910-2004) Overture on Hebrew Themes Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) TIME LINE Clarinetists (and one trumpeter) 1881-1953 Simeon Bellison (b. Moscow, Russia) 1884-1963 Naftule Brandwein (b. Przemyslany, Poland-Galicia – now Ukraine) 1885-1943 Harry Kandel (b. Lemberg, Galicia – now Ukraine) 1897-1989 Dave Tarras (b. Dovid Tarraschuk in Ternivka, Ukraine) 1909-1986 Benny Goodman 1910-2004 Artie Shaw (b. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky) 1914-1968 Ziggy Elman, trumpeter (b. Harry Aaron Finkelman) 192?-1998 Harold Freeman, my first teacher, member of the NBC Symphony with Toscanini Jewish songwriters (and one Gentile) 1888-1989 Irving Berlin (b. Israel Isidore Beilin, son of a cantor) 1891-1964 Cole Porter 1895-1943 Lorenz Hart 1895-1960 Oscar Hammerstein 1896-1983 Ira Gershwin 1898-1937 George Gershwin 1902-1979 Richard Rodgers 1905-1986 Harold Arlen (b. Hyman Arluck, son of a cantor) 1909-1976 Johnny Mercer Jewish Composers of Clarinet Music that I’ve played Samuel Adler (b. 1928) Tzvi Avni (b. 1927) Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984) Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Anthony Brandt (b. 1961) Yehezkel Braun (1922-2014) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Joel Engel (1868-1927) Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002) Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) Arthur Gottschalk (b. 1952) Joseph Horovitz (b. 1926) Richard Lavenda (b. 1955) René Leibowitz (1913-1972) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Shulamit Ran (b. 1949) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Paul Schoenfeld (b. 1947) Mordecai Seter (1916-1994) Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960) Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) Yehudi Wyner (b. 1929) Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) BIOGRAPHIES MICHAEL WEBSTER was born in 1944 and became an honorary Jew in 1969. He is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of the award-winning Houston Youth Symphony. He spent 20 years as Principal Clarinet of the Rochester Philharmonic and one as Acting Principal Clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony. He loves lox and bagels, but actually doesn’t like licorice. Australian soprano, SUSAN LORETTE DUNN, is Artist Teacher of Voice at the Shepherd School of Music and wife of the famous Jewish conductor, Larry Rachleff. Her fourth great grandfather, Aaron Barnett Phillips, was a famous Jewish mechanist at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; he also de- signed an ark for Torah scrolls in Sydney’s Great Synagogue. At the tender age of 23, Miss Dunn made her debut with Opera Australia as Tzietel in Fid- dler on the Roof. CHRISTOPHER JANWONG MCKIGGAN is a DMA piano student of Jon Kimura Parker. He will celebrate Super Bowl Sunday by releasing his solo CD, Paganimania, on Albany Records. He loves bagels but has never tried lox or licorice. MICHAEL STUBBART, a percussionist and timpanist, is a MM student of Richard Brown, specializing in the style of Gene Krupa. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hawaii Sympho- ny Orchestra, and West Virginia Symphony. CARSON MARSHALL, a BM violin student of Paul Kantor, happens to love licorice, and anything involving lox or bagels. JACQUELINE KITZMILLER, a BM violin student of Paul Kantor, loves bagels with or without lox, but could take or leave licorice. Violist JILL VALENTINE is a MM student of Ivo-Jan van der Werff. When she isn’t playing or teaching music, she is probably traveling, writing a letter or enjoying a cup of tea, with or without a bagel. BENJAMIN STOEHR is a MM cello student of Brinton Smith at the Shep- herd School. Ben is neutral on lox and licorice, but would never turn down a pizza. 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